The Bradley house is a major work on the brink of Wright's prairie style; this style would emerge the next year with the construction of the Willits house in Highland Park.  In plan, the first floor is similar to the Willits house – a cruciform plan with the living room and kitchen on one axis and the reception room and dining room on another.  But a back area between the kitchen and dining room prevents a true cruciform plan.  A terrace, since enclosed, extends the dining room and a porte cochere extends the reception area on the opposite side, again similar to the Willits house.  The roofs are gabled and have raked eaves.  A stable constructed for this house is still present, although in extremely bad condition, and its future is unsure at this time.  (See photos below.)

The house was built for the sister of Mrs. Charles Roberts, Wright's Oak Park client and patron, and Warren Hickox, who owned the Wright house built next door at the same time as this house.  The house is on the bank of the Kankakee river and has had a number of uses over the years.  It was used as a restaurant for some time, and has since been restored, and now is used as law and architectural offices.

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